Monday, August 16, 2010
Dear Family,
Today I realized I went around the world for a cause and that I am in the Philippines. It feels kind of like a dream. This week was cool. I dont remember what has happened at all. This Saturday we will being having a baptismal service for a bunch of mga bata and one of our investigators. Out of the 10 baptismal goal dates for this Saturday only one progressed to baptism on the goal date. Its okay though. In 2 weeks we should have mga 3 more baptisms or something. We will see what happens.
Of course I use my daily planner. I use at least every 30minutes, or so it seems. They are mahalgang mahalaga (important) to missionary work.
We had zone con again this week. The food was delicious and they introduced a lot of new things. All missions sa buong (whole) world are going to change. Halimbawa (For example), Zone con is going to be once a quarter. The first presidency is going to be focusing on some things in pmg for the missions. It's cool. It will be good. The APs are cool. Two of them are going home last saturday. meaning they went home and are probably in the states right now. Elder Byers and Elder Scow. Elder Byers is a really good wrestler. Elder Scow goes to BYU and is going to be playing frisbee... He brought a frisbee on his mission by the way.
So... work is good. yeah.
Anyways Ingat
Elder Roxas
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Mga balita dito...
Hello po sa pamilya ko. (Hi, family.)
Ummm I forgot to ask him actually.... but I am sure its fine... but I will still ask him at zone con.
nagpaprogress ang mga investigators ko... pero ngayon, sa palagay ko, isang lang ay magpaprogress sa pagpabinyag sa August 21st. A 15 year old babae named mellary. Actually I shouldn't say that... I think there are some others that might, but people have visyuis. We will see what happens. We had like 5 investigators at church. (My investigators are progressing. We have a set baptism on Aug. 21, a 15-year old girl name Mellary.) There might be others, but a lot of people here have vices.
We found a family this week, that I want to help so bad. It was a very spiritual experience.
Zone Interviews was good. The workshops were on extending the baptismal commitment. It was good.
Today we linised (cleaned) and the apartment to make it all dalisayed (beautiful). The members here probably like me. I wonder why?
I am so glad that I get to have filipino Nenes.... Little flip girls are really cute. I hope my pamangkin is a babae. (I wish I have a niece.)
Ummm.... ano pa? Tagalog is fun. Mom I am happy and healthy because I work hard. You wouldn't think of me as someone to work hard...
Paalam pamilya,
Elder Roxas
Ummm I forgot to ask him actually.... but I am sure its fine... but I will still ask him at zone con.
nagpaprogress ang mga investigators ko... pero ngayon, sa palagay ko, isang lang ay magpaprogress sa pagpabinyag sa August 21st. A 15 year old babae named mellary. Actually I shouldn't say that... I think there are some others that might, but people have visyuis. We will see what happens. We had like 5 investigators at church. (My investigators are progressing. We have a set baptism on Aug. 21, a 15-year old girl name Mellary.) There might be others, but a lot of people here have vices.
We found a family this week, that I want to help so bad. It was a very spiritual experience.
Zone Interviews was good. The workshops were on extending the baptismal commitment. It was good.
Today we linised (cleaned) and the apartment to make it all dalisayed (beautiful). The members here probably like me. I wonder why?
I am so glad that I get to have filipino Nenes.... Little flip girls are really cute. I hope my pamangkin is a babae. (I wish I have a niece.)
Ummm.... ano pa? Tagalog is fun. Mom I am happy and healthy because I work hard. You wouldn't think of me as someone to work hard...
Paalam pamilya,
Elder Roxas
Galing sa iyong tahanan...
Monday, August 2, 2010
Magandang hapon po sa inyo (Good afternoon),
There has not been any bagyos (typhoons). The weather has been really nice actually, very temperate. Those checkered shorts are what I found in the free box in the MTC. If you look at past emails I think I mentioned it.
Maroon po kaming 7 baptismal goal dates right now for the end of the month and we should have mga (about)10 by the end of this week. We have mga 30 lessons a week. We need to be better then that though.
Yes Tumanggap ako ng ibang package. Salamat po. Masarap ang gronola bars. The almond creamy ones are good.
Thanks for the frisbee din. We used it today for our zone activity and it broke already actually... pero it was fun. Yeah so for our zone activity, all the other missionaries came up to infanta and pumunta tayo sa beach (went to the beach). We ate food... adobo and kanin(rice). masarap..(good). we threw some fris. Threw some rocks. Masaya talaga. (It was fun.) Now I am emailing. Then we have 2 appointments.
Noong Sabado(Last Saturday), we did some service in the kabundukan. There was a school up there we helped clean and what not. I carried desks from different places. I decided to carry 5 desks one of the times. It was astig. haha. No one else even carried 3 desks. haha. It was funny, sa palagay ko. Filipinos are funny. Today during the beach they were all afraid to go out into the sun. It was weird. All the Americans were just running around and throwing the fris and what not.
I have given all my candy away already. I didnt really eat any of it. Elder Perry enjoyed it though. My favorites are sour patch kids, kahit ano. haha salty things are a delight. Halimbawa Munchies... ;)
This week I have zone interviews with my mission president. That is about the only time I really get to talk to him. He is a good short man. All about work siya.
Masaya ang missionary work. (Missionary work is joyful.) It feels good to work and accomplish things. Like today, I feel like it was a very unproductive P-day. Like we did all our laundry and then we cleaned the apartment and then all the missionaries came up and we had our activity. We don't have much time to internet really and mamalangke (food shopping) and do those other prep things we do for the week, so now we will have to consolidate it during the week during our lunch times. Anyways.
All is well
Ingat po kayo.
Elder Roxas
Magandang hapon po sa inyo (Good afternoon),
There has not been any bagyos (typhoons). The weather has been really nice actually, very temperate. Those checkered shorts are what I found in the free box in the MTC. If you look at past emails I think I mentioned it.
Maroon po kaming 7 baptismal goal dates right now for the end of the month and we should have mga (about)10 by the end of this week. We have mga 30 lessons a week. We need to be better then that though.
Yes Tumanggap ako ng ibang package. Salamat po. Masarap ang gronola bars. The almond creamy ones are good.
Thanks for the frisbee din. We used it today for our zone activity and it broke already actually... pero it was fun. Yeah so for our zone activity, all the other missionaries came up to infanta and pumunta tayo sa beach (went to the beach). We ate food... adobo and kanin(rice). masarap..(good). we threw some fris. Threw some rocks. Masaya talaga. (It was fun.) Now I am emailing. Then we have 2 appointments.
Noong Sabado(Last Saturday), we did some service in the kabundukan. There was a school up there we helped clean and what not. I carried desks from different places. I decided to carry 5 desks one of the times. It was astig. haha. No one else even carried 3 desks. haha. It was funny, sa palagay ko. Filipinos are funny. Today during the beach they were all afraid to go out into the sun. It was weird. All the Americans were just running around and throwing the fris and what not.
I have given all my candy away already. I didnt really eat any of it. Elder Perry enjoyed it though. My favorites are sour patch kids, kahit ano. haha salty things are a delight. Halimbawa Munchies... ;)
This week I have zone interviews with my mission president. That is about the only time I really get to talk to him. He is a good short man. All about work siya.
Masaya ang missionary work. (Missionary work is joyful.) It feels good to work and accomplish things. Like today, I feel like it was a very unproductive P-day. Like we did all our laundry and then we cleaned the apartment and then all the missionaries came up and we had our activity. We don't have much time to internet really and mamalangke (food shopping) and do those other prep things we do for the week, so now we will have to consolidate it during the week during our lunch times. Anyways.
All is well
Ingat po kayo.
Elder Roxas
Friday, August 13, 2010
A Picture Says 1,000 Words
Monday, July 26, 2010
Kumusta na po kayo,
Yes, I am excited to stay with my trainer. He is a good lad. He went to Red Mountain High School and was in the Salt River Stake. We get along good.
The week was good. We had 5 good investigators at church. I had a lot of fun teaching this week. The best is teaching mga tao ng Iglecia ni Cristo (church members of Iglesia ni Christo). It's the best! That kind of sounds like a pride thing but it's not. It is the best because everytime we teach Iglecia I feel very supported. I feel like truth is barfing out of my mouth uncontrollably and enlightening the room. It's great!
We got caught in the thunderstorm because we went to all our teaching appointments. The weather here in Infanta is very unpredictable as opposed to the rest of the Flip daw. Binili ko ang payong noong dalawang linggo na. (I bought an umbrella two weeks ago.) Ano ang landscape sa tagalog? (What is landscape in tagalog?) There was no baha(no flooding).
I will now send you pictures. Here are the captions:
I am very goofy. I did not take many pictures of my everyday work. In fact, I don't really take that many pictures.
So our investigators have been giving us things. We got these astig (cool) yellow polos.
This is after our first thunderstorm.
We played basketball with some investigators on p-day.
Maraming salamat po para sa package. The contents were a flavorful food delight. The pens were awesome. The little flashlight was very cool as well.
Special thanks to Sister Magleby and Ate.
Well...I bought a toy frisbee already... Mom I will ask my mission president's permission for the other frisbee I guess. I guarantee he will say yes... Sa palagay ko, It won't be a distraction... I feel very awkward that I have to ask for a frisbee again. I would not ask for things that would be detrimental to the work. Pero, I understand your concern, Ask Kuya. Kung hindi okay lang daw, I am fine with not having this frisbee.
I really don't know what to tell you about the work. There are no stories that I can go in intricate detail or anything pero let me just tell you, that there is a really really nice feeling when you find out your investigator keeps their commitments and feels like their prayer was answered. So... yeah that happened I guess with some investigators. I can't really elaborate on it. It just happened and it feels nice.
Anyways, Paalam my chinky fam and my white bayow (brother-in-law) and my alabaster hipag (sister-in-law) (probably shouldn't send chinky to anyone besides the fam)
Elder Roxas
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Observing Light
Monday, July 19, 2010
Hi Family.
Oh Mr. Riley is too cute. Elder Holland told the missionaries "[we] don't have the right to let down the children that look up to [us]." When he said that I wrote down the names of Jaden and Riley.
This week was cool. I experienced my first Bagyo (storm), went with out electricity for 3 days and am currently living on emergency water. It's awesome. The landscape in some of my areas is completely different. Yesterday, I gave a talk in sacrament on the purpose of church/sacrament. It was good. The members said I was much better at tagalog.
Transfers were noong biyernes (last Friday). I did not got transfered and I am still with my trainer. After the bagyo I think we are going to get a cell phone up here in Infanta because we are very far away from everyone else.
Okay. This is what I wanted to share last week. So noong last last wednesday Alas mga 8:45 gabi (around 8:45pm) my companion and I were caught in a thunderstorm. It was really awesome. The lightning were streaks of bright green and bright purple caught in the sky. It was amazing. All the people that passed by were very worried we were going to get pasma. I always ask people if pasma is a bacterial disease or virus? It's great.
This week we had the most lessons we have ever had in a week.
Thanks for the cooking tips mother.
Ingat po, Mahal ko po kayo,
Elder Roxas
Hi Family.
Oh Mr. Riley is too cute. Elder Holland told the missionaries "[we] don't have the right to let down the children that look up to [us]." When he said that I wrote down the names of Jaden and Riley.
This week was cool. I experienced my first Bagyo (storm), went with out electricity for 3 days and am currently living on emergency water. It's awesome. The landscape in some of my areas is completely different. Yesterday, I gave a talk in sacrament on the purpose of church/sacrament. It was good. The members said I was much better at tagalog.
Transfers were noong biyernes (last Friday). I did not got transfered and I am still with my trainer. After the bagyo I think we are going to get a cell phone up here in Infanta because we are very far away from everyone else.
Okay. This is what I wanted to share last week. So noong last last wednesday Alas mga 8:45 gabi (around 8:45pm) my companion and I were caught in a thunderstorm. It was really awesome. The lightning were streaks of bright green and bright purple caught in the sky. It was amazing. All the people that passed by were very worried we were going to get pasma. I always ask people if pasma is a bacterial disease or virus? It's great.
This week we had the most lessons we have ever had in a week.
Thanks for the cooking tips mother.
Ingat po, Mahal ko po kayo,
Elder Roxas
I bathe daily.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Infanta is good. Noong Sabado, We had a one day mission for the branch up here. The APs and zone came up here for it and it was good. We had mga 60 people attend sacrament, which is the most we have had in mga 3 years. It was great. So at zone conference there were about 15 americans (3 were AP's) and 55 natives. yup.
I won't be able to get a package hanggang a week from wednesday because my zone leaders have to get it from the mission home. I have not gotten a letter yet either. I wont get that til next district meeting that I go to which will be a week from wednesday din.
Umm you want to hear about my investigators and what not? haha okay. So, what we lack in the Infanta branch here is priesthood. Right now we have mga 10 progressing investigators and 9 of them are priesthood. One of them is Iglecia ni Cristo. One of them named Noel is really prepared. His wife is actually an inactive. He has a baptismal goal date and what not. He is astig. He is mga 30 years old. Mataas siya. Ano pa? I am not good at describing people. He is just really cool. We also have a family called the Parriras. The father is our progressing investigator. Right now, he is really confused about our very unique message, the restoration. He is smart though. It was just such a shock for him, which is a great reaction as opposed to many people who just are passive about the message.
Well I wanted to tell you all about these crazy fruits and chips they have here and how my companion and I play in the rain and everyone freaks out cuz of "pasma" but now I am out of time. but yeah the work is good. I eat rice and ulam everyday... I bathe daily... I go to the palengke every Monday to buy food for the week.
Anyways Paalam,
Elder Roxas
Infanta is good. Noong Sabado, We had a one day mission for the branch up here. The APs and zone came up here for it and it was good. We had mga 60 people attend sacrament, which is the most we have had in mga 3 years. It was great. So at zone conference there were about 15 americans (3 were AP's) and 55 natives. yup.
I won't be able to get a package hanggang a week from wednesday because my zone leaders have to get it from the mission home. I have not gotten a letter yet either. I wont get that til next district meeting that I go to which will be a week from wednesday din.
Umm you want to hear about my investigators and what not? haha okay. So, what we lack in the Infanta branch here is priesthood. Right now we have mga 10 progressing investigators and 9 of them are priesthood. One of them is Iglecia ni Cristo. One of them named Noel is really prepared. His wife is actually an inactive. He has a baptismal goal date and what not. He is astig. He is mga 30 years old. Mataas siya. Ano pa? I am not good at describing people. He is just really cool. We also have a family called the Parriras. The father is our progressing investigator. Right now, he is really confused about our very unique message, the restoration. He is smart though. It was just such a shock for him, which is a great reaction as opposed to many people who just are passive about the message.
Well I wanted to tell you all about these crazy fruits and chips they have here and how my companion and I play in the rain and everyone freaks out cuz of "pasma" but now I am out of time. but yeah the work is good. I eat rice and ulam everyday... I bathe daily... I go to the palengke every Monday to buy food for the week.
Anyways Paalam,
Elder Roxas
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